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ABOUT ORIANA K. PAWLYK

I’m Military.com’s air warfare reporter covering everything from the latest personnel trends, investigations, defense technology, to Air Force operations all over the world. I am also an active member of the Pentagon Press Association.

I previously covered air campaign operations in the Middle East and Europe, plus uniforms, cyber, Guard and Reserve duties, physical training and technology for Air Force Times.

I edited the Military Times Early Bird Brief newsletter in 2015, compiling the top national security stories driving the day. I started out my national security news career before that as the deputy news editor for Air Force Times.

I became a Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow hosted by the National Press Foundation in July 2013. Through the nine month program, I was given the opportunity to correspond with officials, experts and seasoned journalists in the Washington, D.C., area while also learning from newfound peers and colleagues.

I attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where I received a bachelor’s in Journalism and English Literature. I was an editorial editor and columnist for the university newspaper, The Miami Student.

An American Ukrainian from Chicago, I am bilingually proficient in Ukrainian, and grew up learning Ukrainian arts, culture, history and literature.

My interests include world cultures, international governments, history, intelligence agencies, cybersecurity, geopolitics, the military and written literature on all of the above.

“It could leave a residue of resentment and unease about this president’s approach to the military, whose leaders welcome his push for bigger budgets, but chafe at being seen as political tools.” Via ⁦ @robertburnsAP⁩ https://t.co/e3ORsT2Otb

Ryan McCarthy, the Army secretary, and the Army’s chief of staff Gen. James McConville pressed the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, to increase his forces’ presence in the city, according to a senior Defense Department official. https://t.co/mHARknatI3

President Trump has directed the Pentagon to remove thousands of U.S. troops from Germany by September, amid sharp strains in U.S. relations with Berlin, including over the European country’s level of military spending. https://t.co/vHGhHsxB9Y via @WSJ